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Gough D. McDaniels, the first black winner of Brown University’s Gaston medal, delivers a speech exhorting the United States to send support for Liberia. McDaniels argues that the Liberians have a chance to civilize the African continent, and points out the ways that a stable Liberia could economically benefit the United States.
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1910
Mary Lancaster Best asks Theodore Roosevelt to give a speech in her Angola, Indiana to benefit the building of a church.
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1910-10-04
Sister Victoire Henihan asks Theodore Roosevelt to help contribute funds to build an extension of her abbey’s school in Ireland. The school serves a poor location and cannot expect help from the local area.
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1909-08-21
Vivetta Stevenson asks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to donate a small gift she can sell at her booth at a fundraising bazaar for the Volunteer St. Gregory Hospital. First Lady Helen Herron Taft donated a handkerchief. A handwritten note from Roosevelt says, “No.”
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1909-04-26
Chairman of the Vicksburg National Military Park Commission William T. Rigby thanks President Roosevelt for his contribution of $50 to the statue of General Stephen D. Lee being constructed in Vicksburg Park. Rigby encloses an article on the matter.
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1908-09-28
Atlanta Mayor Joyner informs President Roosevelt that he has been unanimously elected as one of the vice presidents of the Uncle Remus Memorial Association, which is dedicated to preserving Snap Bean Farm, the home of author Joel Chandler Harris. Joyner trusts Roosevelt will accept the position and donate to the fund to purchase the home. Joyner also asks Roosevelt to suggest other names of men “who you think we should make vice presidents of this association.”
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1908-07-22
Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, would like to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Quebec by making the Plains of Abraham a national park and building an Angel of Peace statue there. He had noted to Adèle Le Bourgeios Chapin that he thinks it would be appropriate to get contributions from the United States, as the Plains of Abraham are part of its history as well. Chapin would like to ask Grey’s American friends to contribute to the statue’s fund, or perhaps even to give the statue as a gift, and asks President Roosevelt’s opinion on the advisability of this idea.
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1908-02-07
Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, speaks to the Women’s Canadian Club about raising the funds to erect a “colossal statue of the Angel of Welcome and Peace” on the Plains of Abraham to welcome emigrants to Canada. This should be done to celebrate the tricentennial of the founding of Quebec. Describing Canada’s history, Grey compares the United States’ dedication to erecting patriotic monuments and preserving its past to the lack of enthusiasm in doing the same in Canada.
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1908-01-28
Members of the Oyster Bay baseball team ask President Roosevelt for a donation. The yearly costs for running this team doubled from previous years, and they need generous donations from the community to ensure that they will be able to play. A handwritten note states that Roosevelt has made $10 contributions in the past.
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1907-05-22
Wilbur Fisk Wakeman informs President Roosevelt that many newspapers would like to publish a copy of his letter subscribing to the American Protective Tariff League. Wakeman asks Roosevelt if he would mind sending a clean copy of the letter addressed to J. S. Sherman, who is heading the enterprise, as Wakeman explained in a previous letter. Wakeman thinks that printing a copy of Roosevelt’s letter would have a very good effect.
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1906-08-02
Wilbur Fisk Wakeman thanks President Roosevelt for his subscription to the American Protective Tariff League. Wakeman hopes Roosevelt will pardon him for slightly changing the letter by substituting Chairman J. S. Sherman’s name, as the enterprise they are working on is in Sherman’s name. Wakeman also explains a plan to help recruit more people to the cause.
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1906-08-01
William H. H. Llewellyn is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, discussing Arizona statehood. He details some major figures against statehood for Arizona and the major strategies moving forward to support it. The possibility of joint statehood between Arizona and New Mexico is also discussed.
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1906-07-20
Llewellyn, William H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1851-1927
Jacob A. Riis welcomes President Roosevelt home to New York, where his family has returned for the summer. Riis announces to Roosevelt that John D. Rockefeller’s challenge gift of $125,000, for the seaside hospital for children suffering from tuberculosis, has been matched. The news will not be announced publicly until the next day, and Riis wanted Roosevelt to know, in thanks for his early support of the effort.
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1906-07-01
John Joy Edson and John F. Wilkins write to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt requesting her renewed subscription and support of the Associated Charities and the Citizens’ Relief Association.
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1906-01-10
The 23rd Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona appropriated funding to make a Rough Rider monument to Captain O’Neill in Prescott, and Governor Joseph H. Kibbey has appointed a commission to oversee the erection of the monument. The commission will raise additional money by subscription, and Richard E. Sloan, who is secretary of the appointed commission, asks President Roosevelt for any suggestions to help them carry out their purpose.
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1905-05-04
William F. King sends the city editor and editorial writer a statement referring to the affairs of the Nautical Preparatory School and a circular issued by the Reorganization Committee. While the school has had a troubled start, King believes it is now headed in the right direction, and can be aided in this by the press.
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1904-10-18
William F. King appreciated President Roosevelt’s remarks about the Nautical Preparatory School, and gives him an update on the funding of the school and its present situations. King also tells Roosevelt about the success of his efforts to hang flags with Roosevelt on them in New York. He feels that the presidential campaign is going well, and informs Roosevelt of an upcoming rally.
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1904-10-19
John Black writes to Thomas McKee concerning the fundraising letter he sent to “The Old Boys’ Fremont and Lincoln Republican Club,” which included the names of federal employees, and was circulated to federal employees. The fundraising letter is in violation of the Civil Service Act. Black requests that McKee send a withdrawal of the fund raising request to all federal employees.
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1904-10-08
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt that George von Lengerke Meyer, who will visit Roosevelt on September 30, has done excellent fundraising and campaigning work.
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1904-09-29
John Harsen Rhoades asks President Roosevelt if he would like to contribute money to the fund being raised to cover the cost of athletes from Harvard and Yale traveling to compete in England against athletes from Oxford and Cambridge.
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1904-06-29